I’m noticing 24 hour time (17:30 v 5:30pm) is becoming more common in the US. Which setting do you use on your phone?
30 comments
Yup
I understand 24 hour time, but it’s not my jam personally. I just have the 12 hour time
The only people I know that switched to 24 hours mode is people who have worked the night shift.
Yeah. It just makes sense to me.
Yes
No. I almost never see anything listed by the 24-hour clock so there’s no need for it.
Nope
for the majority of american people, no. unless they’re military or from a military family, generally no reason to
I keep mine on 24-hour time. I work in EMS and it’s used pretty much exclusively. But I prefer it even for my own watch/laptop/etc., it just makes sense to me 🙂
Yes
Nope. I don’t like having to convert things in my head. 12 hours is fine for me
No. Where are you “noticing this becoming more common”?
Been using 24 hour time since before cell phones were really a thing.
No. I like the symmetry of 12-hour time better.
I would fully endorse a cultural switch to 24 clocks, but Im not going to switch ob my own and have to mentally convert things back and forth.
Mine is, yes. It’s held over from when I drove tractor trailers and then later did shift work, but now it helps me stay oriented since my sleep patterns are all over the place and I use blackout curtains which means my room is always dark. If I wake up and it’s 1800, I know it’s 6PM. I’ve been doing it so long, there really is no conversion anymore.
Yes, much less likely to screw up setting my alarm
Yes.
I worked a job right after college that operated in 24h time and never changed it.
I recently tried to switch my phone to Celsius figuring I would just eventually know what the temp was but that has been a trickier transition lol (no, there is no good reason to have my temp in C, it’s just fun).
I use a 24-hour clock. My dad was in the USAF so I grew up with it.
The time on my car is military. my watch is an analog. i use my smartphone for gaming and ignore time
Yes. Studied in Europe. Never went back.
Yes and it has been since my circadian rhythm got thrown out of whack over a decade ago.
No more waking up, looking at my phone, and struggling in those first moments to tell if it was AM or PM.
I worked for a company that processed job orders with 24h time listed on the cover sheets for each job. I changed my phone to a 24h clock to stay on top of orders and never went back.
It’s been like 12 years and I still vastly prefer it
Yes, but only because I work security and our daily log, incident reports, and any official forms have to be filled out in 24 hour time.
yes. its been my preference for years. i’m not in the military either.
Yes. I’ve been using 24 hour time on my computers since the 1990s and on my smart phone since I got my iPhone 3G. Not military, I just prefer it.
Yep. Lived in Europe for a year (almost 40 years ago, I’m over 60) and try to keep my skills up.
Yes it’s the only way. People that can’t subtract 12 worry me.
I use 24 hour time. I lived in europe for a while and got used to it, and now I prefer it.
I switched to a 24 hour clock back in 2016 when I was at an academic conference in Germany. I never changed it back because as a person with a fair amount of executive dysfunction it’s harder for me to set an alarm for the wrong time.
30 comments
Yup
I understand 24 hour time, but it’s not my jam personally. I just have the 12 hour time
The only people I know that switched to 24 hours mode is people who have worked the night shift.
Yeah. It just makes sense to me.
Yes
No. I almost never see anything listed by the 24-hour clock so there’s no need for it.
Nope
for the majority of american people, no. unless they’re military or from a military family, generally no reason to
I keep mine on 24-hour time. I work in EMS and it’s used pretty much exclusively. But I prefer it even for my own watch/laptop/etc., it just makes sense to me 🙂
Yes
Nope. I don’t like having to convert things in my head. 12 hours is fine for me
No. Where are you “noticing this becoming more common”?
Been using 24 hour time since before cell phones were really a thing.
No. I like the symmetry of 12-hour time better.
I would fully endorse a cultural switch to 24 clocks, but Im not going to switch ob my own and have to mentally convert things back and forth.
Mine is, yes. It’s held over from when I drove tractor trailers and then later did shift work, but now it helps me stay oriented since my sleep patterns are all over the place and I use blackout curtains which means my room is always dark. If I wake up and it’s 1800, I know it’s 6PM. I’ve been doing it so long, there really is no conversion anymore.
Yes, much less likely to screw up setting my alarm
Yes.
I worked a job right after college that operated in 24h time and never changed it.
I recently tried to switch my phone to Celsius figuring I would just eventually know what the temp was but that has been a trickier transition lol (no, there is no good reason to have my temp in C, it’s just fun).
I use a 24-hour clock. My dad was in the USAF so I grew up with it.
The time on my car is military. my watch is an analog. i use my smartphone for gaming and ignore time
Yes. Studied in Europe. Never went back.
Yes and it has been since my circadian rhythm got thrown out of whack over a decade ago.
No more waking up, looking at my phone, and struggling in those first moments to tell if it was AM or PM.
I worked for a company that processed job orders with 24h time listed on the cover sheets for each job. I changed my phone to a 24h clock to stay on top of orders and never went back.
It’s been like 12 years and I still vastly prefer it
Yes, but only because I work security and our daily log, incident reports, and any official forms have to be filled out in 24 hour time.
yes. its been my preference for years. i’m not in the military either.
Yes. I’ve been using 24 hour time on my computers since the 1990s and on my smart phone since I got my iPhone 3G. Not military, I just prefer it.
Yep. Lived in Europe for a year (almost 40 years ago, I’m over 60) and try to keep my skills up.
Yes it’s the only way. People that can’t subtract 12 worry me.
I use 24 hour time. I lived in europe for a while and got used to it, and now I prefer it.
I switched to a 24 hour clock back in 2016 when I was at an academic conference in Germany. I never changed it back because as a person with a fair amount of executive dysfunction it’s harder for me to set an alarm for the wrong time.